Symphony of Chicago West

We didn't have many favorable things to say about this facility's overall score or its category scores. Nevertheless, with just a D in this area, it still performed relatively poorly. Our nursing rating looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is not great. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's next most favorable category is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed relatively poorly. Our short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. As you might expect, we discovered that this nursing home offers substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

We wanted to note that this facility received an F for its inspection score. An F in this area is very concerning because it generally points to red flags on the nursing home's inspection reports. When a facility has this poor of an inspection rating, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This facility was assessed one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by the government inspectors had the potential to create actual harm to patients. Another area of concern is that CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

The final category we assessed is long-term care. This facility received a very poor grade of F in this category. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 93.71069 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be a few points less than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.